Tuesday, 7 September 2010

My Spurtle.......

A couple of you asked 'what is a spurtle'......so especially for you, here is a picture of my Spurtle.

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They originated in the fifteenth century in Scotland, originally more of a spatula shape but that modified over many years to become a more wooden spoon handle shape. They are designed for stirring porridge or oatmeal. They can be plain and simple, as mine is, or decorated and carved very ornately, especially at the top with the Scots thistle being a very popular topper.

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I asked Ben to make me one so I could see my very own utensil being made, it was wonderful to watch a rough piece of wood, Cherry in the case, being turned into a useful item of kitchenalia. This is him actually making it for me.

~ A nice and useful, souvenir of a wonderful day out.

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(Can you guess by what's stood behind it in the picture what I'm up to today?)

6 comments:

Hi Sue. Glad you had a great weekend. We went to a Wild Food Festival in St David's and watched some woodturning as well. I think you are going to use your spirtle to make cranachan, a Scottish dessert with oats, raspeberries, whiskey and cream - But, unfortunately, perhaps not. Is it on the diet? Ann

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We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It is simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... over nine years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

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